Re: [Xastir] How to get CWOP weather on APRS network

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 1:01 PM Curt Mills wrote: > > Where it can be and advantage is if you're trying to inject > objects/items into Xastir from some other interface, using > xastir_udp_client to do this injection. > That works and I have made use of it during bike events to translate SPOT

Re: [Xastir-dev] Switching string length discussion to here

There is also strlcat. - Jason On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 11:58 AM Tom Russo wrote: > Oh, and certainly you *could* use "xastir_snprintf" to do a sort of strncat > operation: > >xastir_snprintf(dest,dest_size,"%s%s",dest,src); > > instead of >strncat(dest,src,dest_size-1-strnlen(dest)); >

Re: [Xastir] Networking issue for Cygwin

ull". Could this mean Cygwin is initializing the > > structure in an unusual way? > > Thanks, > > Russ > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Xastir On Behalf Of Jason > Godfrey > > Sent: October 31, 2021 1:14 PM > > To: Xastir - APRS cli

Re: [Xastir] Networking issue for Cygwin (and possible solution)

Hello. Could you try doing a memset to 0 of hints in net_init before the hints fields are set and see if that helps? In my copy it is line 3457 in interface.c. Thanks - Jason On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 12:27 PM wrote: > Thank you Tom. I agree this is not a universal solution, indeed "temporary

Re: [Xastir-dev] Maybe it's time for a 2.1.8 release?

Hello. I agree with a point release and simplifying the release process. 73 - Jason On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 9:47 AM Tom Russo wrote: > Gang: > > It's been over a year since our last Xastir release, and there has been > very > little development since then -- mostly minor tweaks to the build

Re: [Xastir] Xastir down after upgrade to OSX 11.3 " Big Sur"

"you should run autoupdate" --- IGNORE IT > for the time being. It's just noise for now (until they remove the feature > some day), and running autoupdate may break soemthing else »: ok. > > Cyril. > > > Le 11 mai 2021 à 20:37, Jason Godfrey a écrit : > > >

Re: [Xastir] Xastir down after upgrade to OSX 11.3 " Big Sur"

Hello. My suspicion is anyone running that old of a system doesn't have running the latest software as a priority, so we can get by suggesting running versions before a particular date. - Jason On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 11:12 AM Tom Russo wrote: > So, here's a thing to ask the community at

Re: [Xastir] Xastir down after upgrade to OSX 11.3 " Big Sur"

Hello. I was able to build xastir on 11.3.1, so this may be local issue. My first suggestion is doing a "make clean" and then rebuilding. From your output it looks like you may have old .o files left over from a previous build. If that doesn't work, my next suggestion would be to see if you have

Re: [Xastir] APRS queries

Hello. With the events that I normally use xastir for approaching, I'm not sure if I can get to this soon, but I will keep it in mind. I have filed issue 176 to keep track of the request. 73 - Jason On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 5:58 PM Tom Russo wrote: > It should be possible to do this, but for

Re: [Xastir] re the problem that I asked about earlier

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 7:22 PM Phil wrote: > phil@phil-ThinkPad-T420:~$ sudo lsof -i :2023 > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME > xastir 2226 phil4u IPv4 42691 0t0 TCP *:2023 (LISTEN) > xastir 2226 phil5u IPv6 42692 0t0 TCP *:2023 (LISTEN) > xastir

Re: [Xastir] re the problem that I asked about earlier

Can you run "lsof -i :2023" as root and see if anything is using those ports? This will look at the spider side of things. I'm not familiar with the festival side of things, so I won't be much help there. - Jason On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 1:08 AM Phil wrote: > > telnet localhost 1314 results in

Re: [Xastir] Xastir pid problem

With xastir not running, do a "ps auxw | grep xastir" and see if there is a xastir process running. If so (I would be surprised if not), kill it. Sometimes a child process from xastir stays running. - Jason On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 7:10 PM Phil wrote: > This has occurred because I did not

Re: [Xastir] Installing Xastir on Mint

Looks like that page is from 2011, so quite out of date! I'm not familiar with Mint, but if you don't hear back from someone who has better information you might want to try the Debian instructions: https://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Debian_Stretch_or_Jessie - Jason On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 9:22

Re: [Xastir] KISS over TCP

I suggest filing an issue with your request at https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues. Can't say how likely that feature is but that is "the list" where bugs and feature requests are tracked. 73 - Jason On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 4:07 PM Magnús Ragnarsson wrote: > Hello > > I'm new here on this

Re: [Xastir] Launch fail after git pull / OSX 10.13.6

Hello. FWIW I just did a build of the latest code and git and was able to run. This was on OS X 10.14. I noticed in your build that it only did a partial build. Just to make sure everything is synced up I recommend running bootstrap, configure, make clean, and make/make install. - Jason On

Re: [Xastir-dev] [Xastir] ATTENTION: Preparing for next release: Please thrash on the code

I ran it for a Bike MS event on Sunday, no issues. (Although I only used a network interface for this event.) - Jason On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 9:16 AM Curt Mills wrote: > Anyone else have any reports, good or bad? > > FWIW: For the types of things I do the latest code has been stable for me. >

Re: [Xastir] [Xastir-dev] ATTENTION: Preparing for next release: Please thrash on the code

I ran it for a Bike MS event on Sunday, no issues. (Although I only used a network interface for this event.) - Jason On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 9:16 AM Curt Mills wrote: > Anyone else have any reports, good or bad? > > FWIW: For the types of things I do the latest code has been stable for me. >

Re: [Xastir-dev] Travis-CI: gcc 8?

Maybe swap the Ubuntu 14.04 max build to use gcc 8 if that is a valid combination? The travis-ci documentation has the comment "If you are on an open-source plan, please remember that Travis CI provides this service free of charge to the community. So please only specify the matrix you *actually

Re: [Xastir-dev] Git question

Is origin Xastir/Xastir and upstream we7u/Xastir? In any case, I would probably try a git pull from origin In general I try to avoid working in master. I will do work in another branch and have master track the "official" master. If needed I will update my local master and then merge master into

Re: [Xastir-dev] Xastir Qt, where should it reside?

Hello. I feel it should be be a separate repository under the Xastir project. Keeps it separate enough but still tied to Xastir. - Jason On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:58 AM Curt Mills wrote: > The Xastir Qt project is in Xastir/src/qt/ > > It's entirely separate code and an entirely separate

Re: [Xastir] constant warnings in term after update and ipv6 (updated) isn't broke

Glad it is working again. I am still a bit concerned as it should have fallen back to connecting via IPv4 if it was unable to connect via IPv6. - Jason On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 3:35 PM David Flood wrote: > IPV6 is once again working for firenet so it must have been a temporary > fluke.. > >

Re: [Xastir] constant warnings in term after update and ipv6 might be partially broken again

Are you still having IPv6 issues? Was it not connecting at all if you have IPv6 enabled? I have a busy streak but I can take a look when I have some free time. - Jason On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 9:24 AM David Flood wrote: > I also tried LOCALE="C"...same errors... > > -Original Message-

Re: [Xastir] compiling and installing xastir using git on a Raspberri pi

Did you run the "./bootstrap.sh" step? If so, what was the output? 73 - Jason On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 2:18 AM Menga wrote: > Dear friends, > I'm reinstalling xastir on a fresh 2018-04-18-raspbian-stretch on my new > RPI > 3 B+ using git. > In the past adventurousy I

Re: [Xastir] Autostart Xastir

If you are using Raspian (or another systemd based distro) using systemd might be a good way to do it. See https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/systemd.md - Jason On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:21 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Jason KG4WSV wrote:

Re: [Xastir-dev] Value of "compilation date" in a source-built Xastir?

I could see a slight use case for the date when running with uncommitted code, but I don't think that is a compelling enough case to keep the date functionality. - Jason On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 1:54 PM Tom Russo wrote: > This was brought to my attention today: > >

[Xastir-dev] Mailing lists in README.md file

Hello. I am wondering if the last paragraph in the mailing lists section in the README.md file which reads: The xas...@xastir.org mail-list is dedicated to Bug reports, technical questions, your thoughts or suggestions on new features being added to Xastir, things that should be removed or fixed,

Re: [Xastir-dev] Has the IPV6 stuff been merged into the mainline?

I pushed another small change to the same repo that fixes the interaction between interfaces on error I saw. With that change all issues I am aware of should (knocks on wood) be fixed. 73 - Jason ___ Xastir-dev mailing list Xastir-dev@lists.xastir.org

Re: [Xastir-dev] Has the IPV6 stuff been merged into the mainline?

elf > 8 > Thread exceeded it's time limit or failed to connect! Port 0 > Killing thread > Thread did not return, port 0, DEVICE_ERROR *** > Net ok: 0, port 0 > *** net_init is returning a -1 *** > Fri Jan 26 16:01:35 PST 2018: > Interface Error! Error openin

Re: [Xastir-dev] Has the IPV6 stuff been merged into the mainline?

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 5:25 PM, Tom Russo wrote: > > > Now your undo-ipv6client branch is an exact copy of the code from right > before > the ipv6client code was merged, and has none of the later commits, either. > > *NOW* you can switch back and forth between master and

Re: [Xastir-dev] Looking for some volunteers to test some modifications

Thank you everyone who has given this a try. - Jason On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 5:39 PM, Tom Russo wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 02:15:12AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the flavor, containing: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 05:39:13PM

Re: [Xastir] Mac Installation Questions

Hello. Are you running the latest code in githiub? I don't have any suggestions but will note that I run xastir natively on my Mac without any problems. I use homebrew to install the needed dependencies. - Jason On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: > On Sat,

[Xastir-dev] UDP Client/Server question

Hello. Tom just merged a pull request of mine that adds IPv6 support to the xastir TCP server. I was thinking about adding support to the UDP server and xastir_udp_client next. The pattern I am familiar with when programming for IPv6 capable programs is to get a list of addrinfo structures back

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

On the topic of pretty offline maps, I have followed online directions to setup my own local OSM tile server and then created an xastir mapfile to point to localhost. It's not trivial, but if you are comfortable with basic system administration and building codes it is doable. - Jason On Fri,

Re: [Xastir] Airplanes, anyone an expert?

I'm not sure about a 150, but a 152 can operate slower than that. Somewhere around 35-40 knots air speed. (I once was able to hover over a city when practicing slow flight in really strong winds.) - Jason On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:21 PM Curt Mills wrote: > Does the below

Re: [Xastir] Xastir not playing nice

Pure speculation, but I wonder if the flow control settings for the serial port are wrong if you could "hang up" the KPC-3 waiting for data. If data is going out from xastir over the interface that probably wouldn't be it though. - Jason On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 3:39 PM Curt Mills

Re: [Xastir] Script to cache some maps

As for "does the speed matter that much": I'm not sure if the difference is actually significant, but when you're watching maps redraw while the voice operator is waiting for you to tell him which medical unit is closest to the accident that just happened on the bike route, it sure _feels_ like

Re: [Xastir] Script to cache some maps

Curt, did you intend to attach pictures or a link? I don't see anything. Do you find the quad- core actually makes a difference? Years ago I looked at parallelizing the shapefile rendering, but I never found a way that wasn't more invasive than i was willing to undertake. - Jason On Thu, Nov

Re: [Xastir] Script to cache some maps

A couple of years ago I had setup my own tile server on my computer and pointed at xastir at localhost. (I downloaded the OSM data for just my state.) It worked well, but took a little bit of effort to get going. It was long enough ago I can't point to directions, but I'm guessing with some

Re: [Xastir] QT version

For myself (who has contributed some of the QT xastir code) it is on my list of projects, but often gets beaten out by higher priority items. Xastir is a good program as it is, so as I evaluate what I should work on to get ready for the next event a new version rarely makes the cut. That being

Re: [Xastir] Offline Maps update?

It's not a trivial project (although not horrible either) but a few years ago I setup my box to act as a tile server with a copy of the OSM data and then pointed xastir at the local tileserver. This allowed me to get good looking offline maps. - Jason On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 2:29 PM Lee Bengston

Re: [Xastir] How to create DBFAWK

Yes. The .dbf comes with a shapefile and contains information about features in the shapefile. The .dbfawk file is xastir filetype and contains rules on how to display a feature in a shapefile based on what is in the .dbf file. - Jason On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:05 AM Skyler Fennell

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Qt Checkout Instructions (Warning: Very alpha, not usable yet)

Hello. At the moment there isn't a whole lot of functionality there. Some dialog boxes are coded, and it can connect to a TCP/IP interface and show what packets are there. The next chunk of code I was planning on tackling was the APRS parsing stuff (db.c, if you are familiar with the current

Re: [Xastir-dev] Please welcome our newest developer

On Πεμ, 2013-10-17 at 10:35 -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote: Please welcome Jason Godfrey, N0RPM, as our newest developer. He was granted developer status yesterday. He's been working on the Qt port, providing patches that I've been checking in for him. I figured it was about time I got out of his

Re: [Xastir] [Xastir-dev] Please welcome our newest developer

On Πεμ, 2013-10-17 at 10:35 -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote: Please welcome Jason Godfrey, N0RPM, as our newest developer. He was granted developer status yesterday. He's been working on the Qt port, providing patches that I've been checking in for him. I figured it was about time I got out of his

Re: [Xastir] Suggestion

For reading outside you could try this: http://liliputing.com/2012/07/use-the-kindle-e-reader-as-a-second-monitor.html (I have no idea if it is practical, but when working events outside I have dreamed on an E-Ink monitor.) - Jason On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:

Re: [Xastir] Suggestion

I'm willing to help develop for xastir. How much spare time I have varies wildly, but I have some. I could give this feature a try. If xastir-ng isn't dead like I thought, I could help with that as well/instead. - Jason On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Xastir] Opinions sought on new maps

What are you using for conversion? It looks like GDAL can handle most of the formats you listed. - Jason On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: Surely there will be a few opinions. I'm looking at obtaining some of these maps Ozraster

Re: [Xastir] Opinions sought on new maps

flavor, containing: On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:07:46 -0600 Jason Godfrey godfr...@gmail.com wrote: What are you using for conversion? It looks like GDAL can handle most of the formats you listed. - Jason I was converting through a multistage process which included gdal. I'll ask

Re: [Xastir] New stable release out: xastir-2.0.4

The core of MacOS X is called Darwin, and is open source. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29 - Jason On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Chip Griffin wrote: OSX is based on FreeBSD, so your second to last

Re: [Xastir-dev] Anyone interested in trying a patch?

I was looking at the list archive and didn't see any evidence that my attachment made it through. If it did not, please let me know and I will send out another email with the patch pasted in. Thanks - Jason On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Jason Godfrey godfr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I've

[Xastir-dev] Anyone interested in try a patch?

Hello. I've been doing some work trying to speed up displaying of shapefile maps using dbfawk. I have a patch that works on the maps I use, and for my test case, speeds drawing up from 30 seconds to 15 seconds. Before I officially submit the patch I woud like to get some more exposure and make

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on OS X PPC Powerbook G4

If you open Preferences under the X11 menu there is an option Emulate 3 Button Mouse. Make sure that is checked, then command click should be right click. - Jason On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:11 PM, T Wegner tow...@tds.net wrote: First, a big thank you to anyone who may be reading this who has

Re: [Xastir] APRS data visualization

Googling for Isoline Map might be a good starting point. - Jason On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Jason KG4WSV kg4...@gmail.com wrote: I've often wished there was a way to view APRS weather data the way weather is displayed on the evening news - e.g. take all that temperature data and

Re: [Xastir] IPv6 support on the Mac binary of 2.0.1

I don't believe IPv6 support made it into xastir 2.0. The development work that has been done for IPv6 does work on a Mac, so when it makes it in you should be good. - Jason On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Javier Henderson jav...@cisco.com wrote: Does the Mac binary of version 2.0.1 have

Re: [Xastir] Display Questions

:08 PM, Jason Godfrey wrote: Here is a check to make sure xastir is actually getting understandable data from your TNC. Go to View and choose Incoming Data. You should see a bunch of lines with packets appearing. Mine shows (coming from an internet connection): 2:NET- WA0FW-10APU25N,TCPIP

Re: [Xastir] Display Questions

Another thing you could try is pulling up the station list and clicking (or may double clicking, I forget) on the icon next to a station. That should center the maps on that station so you can see if you were just in the wrong area. - Jason On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Curt, WE7U

Re: [Xastir] Display Questions

be appreciated. Nikita, KF5EFR From: Jason Godfrey godfr...@gmail.com To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Sent: Tue, October 5, 2010 2:59:23 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Display Questions Another thing you could try is pulling up

Re: [Xastir] KML to Xastir overlay.

I use ogr2ogr to convert KML to shapefiles. I've found it best to save it as a kml (not kmz) and only export the path portion. - Jason On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Robert Rogers n8fa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all I'm getting ready for a trip and I made a kml of my route and want to

Re: [Xastir-dev] A likely direction?

I don't think I have the time available to make the commitment I think you are looking for on code development, but if you would like some testing and debug help for Macs I can provide that. - Jason, N0RPM On Aug 17, 2010 3:40 PM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Curt,

Re: [Xastir] [tiling] reading tiles slow

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Jerry Dunmire je...@dunmire.org wrote: All the ones I've looked at require some sort of transformation. It all depends on the projection used to generate the raster map. I'm starting to look at Terraserver tiles now and the transformation from/to UTM will be a

Re: [Xastir] [tiling] reading tiles slow

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Jason Godfrey godfr...@gmail.com wrote: You might want to look at GDAL. It is already an optional library for xastir. I haven't used it (I have used the related ogr library), but it should support transformations. And of course, right after I hit send I

Re: [Xastir] UpdateTime: Writen error (TNC Send x_spider): 32

I have seen that error when I somehow ended up with 2 copies of xastir running. Quiting and doing a killall xastir cleared it up for me. - Jason On May 30, 2010 8:56 AM, Kevin Ratcliff ke...@kevinratcliff.com wrote: Anyone know what this message is about: UpdateTime: Writen error (TNC Send

Re: [Xastir] x_spider server

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2010, Jason Godfrey wrote: Is my diagnosis correct? If so is there a way to get xastir to treat them as it's own objects? Send them from your Xastir station's callsign-ssid.  I think that will make Xastir

Re: [Xastir] x_spider server

Hello. I am obviously doing something wrong, but I can't see it. If anyone can spot my trouble it would help a lot. I don't see my objects appear on the map or on the object list. I have also tried inserting objects from packets found on the internet using xastir_udp_client, and I still don't see

Re: [Xastir] Map file extensions

Taking a quick peek at the website it looks like the data is in a proprietary format. It looks like they have a (Windows) conversion program at http://www.bts.gov/publications/north_american_transportation_atlas_data/html/data_converter.html. - Jason On Jan 26, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Robert Rogers

Re: [Xastir] Problems with lighting up Counties, NWS files

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Curt, WE7Uarc...@eskimo.com wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Tom Russo wrote: Lemme know if this fixes things --- I'm one of the people who doesn't want to update his shapefiles, so I can't test it. It does.  Made only that change on the laptop and connected to a

Re: [Xastir] Crash when reading shapefile

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Tom Russoru...@bogodyn.org wrote: I just committed a change to shp_hash.c that protects against this segfault/bus error by skipping any shapes for which SHPReadObject fails.  There is similar code in the map_shp.c file. Cool, thanks,. I don't know what's

[Xastir] Crash when reading shapefile

Hello. I've been trying to get xastir to display a shapefile that was created by an online KML to shapefile converter. After figuring out a dbfawk file and fixing some coordinate problems with my converted shapefile I finally got xastir to try to draw based on the shapefile. However, xastir

Re: [Xastir] Crash when reading shapefile

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Tom Russoru...@bogodyn.org wrote: so we get the number of shapes out of the shapefile and then loop over that, expecting that they're all there.  It is possible that your KML-to-shapefile converter is setting the number of shapes in the shapefile wrong, and

Re: [Xastir] Crash when reading shapefile

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Tom Russoru...@bogodyn.org wrote: Not a known error.  The code is clearly *not* doing some error checking it should do (check for null pointer return from SHPReadObject before dereferencing it), but neither should SHPReadObject ever fail so long as you're